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  Blaze at internally displaced persons camp in northern Borno state destroyed at least 1,200 tents, officials say. Armed groups have forced more than two million people to flee their homes since 2009, with most settling into squalid camps. A fire at an internally displaced persons camp in northern Nigeria left at least 7,200 people without shelter, authorities said early on Wednesday. A total of 1,200 tents were burned in the fire at the camp in Gajiram village in Borno state, according to Yabawa Kolo, an official from Nigeria’s Emergency Management Agency. Official  said the incident, which occurred last week, was the latest in a “series of the annual fire outbreaks” at the camp, reposted  an online news website called the Premium Times. The camp includes those who escaped the violence of the Boko Haram armed group. Kolo said the government sent humanitarian aid to the camp’s residents. Five children were killed and 7,457 people lost their tents in a fire last year at a refugee camp

*According to police IG, 14 states recorded major violence during the protest *Going further, the police boss said 71 public warehouses and 248 privately owned stores were looted in the course of the protests nationwide The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mohammed Adamu, on Friday, said 205 critical national security assets, corporate facilities and private property were burnt or vandalized during the EndSARS protest in the country. Adamu stated this on Friday in Abuja during a virtual conference with senior police officers in the country. He said statistics collated between Oct. 11 when the protest assumed a national dimension and October 27 indicated that 14 states recorded major violence. Adamu said the states are Lagos, Edo, Delta, Oyo, Kano, Plateau, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Rivers, Abia, Imo, Ekiti and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) He said the violence had resulted to attacks on critical national security infrastructure and other corporate and private properties as well as inju

  The protest which was said to be peaceful and fair turned out to be bloody and means of lotting in the city of calabar.  The palliatives That were been discovered in some warehouses Were taken, the governor of the state Ben Ayade gave an order that those palliatives should be taken and no security personnels should stop nor shot at the people. It was been discovered that after taken all of the palliatives, the warehouse was set on fire, cars and offices were been destroyed. Massive destructions has really taken effect on government properties and other individuals properties, it is a sad news to the cross riverians as this has never happened before. According to some comments from masses in the state, it is believed that the government has failed them, no jobs and government can not keep to their promises. "They promise us and failed us and now we are angry". It is also believed that people outside the state came in and contributed in the destruction of government propertie